Last Saturday Dan and I drove to a Club House near Hamilton Field to celebrate the life of Jamie Schoen and to mourn her passing with her family and friends. It was a beautiful, multi-faceted memorial with a slide show of her life, music, dance and song, poetry, and heart-felt words.

BEGINNING well or beginning poorly, what is important is simply to begin, but the ability to make a good beginning is also an art form, beginning well involves a clearing away of the crass, the irrelevant and the complicated to find the beautiful, often hidden lineaments of the essential and the necessary.